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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Argument Mapping Architecture Inception Canvas Software Architecture Canvas

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Decision Making Argument Mapping	Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas	Architecture Software Architecture Canvas
Purposedifferent	ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification.	When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.	The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails.	The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	Low	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-3 h	1-2 h	1-2 h
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	1-8	3-8	3-10
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale	Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions	Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	SensemakingDecisionRationale	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas	CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop

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